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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: This Is Why They Say Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Date: 5 Jan 2025 14:14:38 GMT
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Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> wrote:
> On 31/12/2024 19:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> > Yet another
> > <https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-windows-11-24h2-bug-could-block-future-security-updates-see-whos-affected/>
> > in the ongoing stream of bugs from Microsoft resulting from the
> > Windows update process itself. This one breaks the ability to receive
> > further security updates. So once you get it, how do you get an update
> > to fix it? Particularly when there have already been updates that kept
> > introducing their own new bugs?
> 
> If you read it properly instead of skimming and then rushing to 
> gleefully spread the news, you'd see that it only applies to those who 
> installed 24H2 from media (DVD or USB) that has had Windows updates 
> slipstreamed into it.

  Actually it's "that has had *the wrong* Windows updates slipstreamed
into it."

  I.e. the imaginary user did the *wrong* thing and that might have led
to a problem.

  That's what you get for doing things the wrong way, isn't it!? :-)

> Almost nobody does that.

  <firmly sitting on hands>